The Letter to the Hebrews, Chapter 9
{9:1} Now indeed even the first covenant had ordinances of divine
service, and an earthly sanctuary. {9:2} For there was a tabernacle
prepared. In the first part were the menorah, the table, and the show
bread; which is called the Holy Place. {9:3} After the second veil was
the tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies, {9:4} having a
golden altar of incense, and the ark of the covenant overlaid on all
sides with gold, in which was a golden pot holding the manna, Aharon's
rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant; {9:5} and above it
Keruvim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat, of which things we
can't now speak in detail. {9:6} Now these things having been thus
prepared, the [1>]Kohanim[<1] go in continually into the first
tabernacle, accomplishing the services, {9:7} but into the second the
[2>]Kohen Gadol[<2] alone, once in the year, not without blood, which
he offers for himself, and for the errors of the people. {9:8} The
[3>]Ruach HaKodesh[<3] is indicating this, that the way into the Holy
Place wasn't yet revealed while the first tabernacle was still
standing; {9:9} which is a symbol of the present age, where gifts and
sacrifices are offered that are incapable, concerning the conscience,
of making the worshipper perfect; {9:10} being only (with meats and
drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time
of reformation.
{9:11} But Messiah having come as a [4>]Kohen Gadol[<4] of the
coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle,
not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation, {9:12} nor
yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood,
entered in once for all into the Holy Place, having obtained eternal
redemption. {9:13} For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes
of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled, sanctify to the
cleanness of the flesh: {9:14} how much more will the blood of
Messiah, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without
blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the
living God? {9:15} For this reason he is the mediator of a new
covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the
transgressions that were under the first covenant, that those who have
been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance. {9:16}
For where a last will and testament is, there must of necessity be the
death of him who made it. {9:17} For a will is in force where there
has been death, for it is never in force while he who made it lives.
{9:18} Therefore even the first covenant has not been dedicated
without blood. {9:19} For when every [5>]mitzvah[<5] had been spoken
by Moshe to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of
the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and
sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, {9:20} saying,
"This is the blood of the covenant which God has commanded you."
{9:21} Moreover he sprinkled the tabernacle and all the vessels of
the ministry in like manner with the blood. {9:22} According to the
law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding
of blood there is no remission. {9:23} It was necessary therefore that
the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these;
but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
{9:24} For Messiah hasn't entered into holy places made with hands,
which are representations of the true, but into heaven itself, now to
appear in the presence of God for us; {9:25} nor yet that he should
offer himself often, as the [6>]Kohen Gadol[<6] enters into the holy
place year by year with blood not his own, {9:26} or else he must have
suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the
end of the ages, he has been revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice
of himself. {9:27} Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once,
and after this, judgment, {9:28} so Messiah also, having been once
offered to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without
sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.
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Footnotes:
[1] {9:6} priests
[2] {9:7} high priest
[3] {9:8} Holy Spirit
[4] {9:11} high priest
[5] {9:19} commandment
[6] {9:25} high priest
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